EbolaParasite:


Are you ok? Can't you read.
This is about position as speaker. If you defect, you do not lose your position. What he is losing in this case is his position as SPEAKER and not as a member of the house. Is it so hard for you to comprehend. How did you pass WAEC?

gabicon:
This is the genesis of our problems when public servants who ought to act as professionals tow the line of politics. When did the police begin to interprete our laws for us? Has our judiciary gotten so useless? I think GEJ needs be careful about all these escapades cos it will definately come around back. I personally believe he will win the 2015 election but these same PDP cronies will have nothing to prove to him again or need anything from him and that will be were his problems will start, these same people pushing tooth and nail for him. We can see how the ministers used him as a platform to launch themselves into main stream gubernatorial candidates people who have acquired experience in office and are surpose to stay on to make him succeed now he has to get people to start from scratch.
PDP needs to learn to not waste resources fighting fruitless battles, the speaker and house can do little or nothing productive with the time left. 3 months to election which will be used for campaigns and so on. why not save the ace for something better?

size38:
Nigerian police, GEJ and the PDP playing it dirty here. This is politics of bitterness siting relevant section of the constitution that does not go with the argument. My question is: Is Aminu Tambuwal the speaker of PDP, the Nigerian police or the speaker of house of Representatives of Nigeria?

BOAR:


That is purely your interpretation.

The Speaker has interpreted it in a different manner, the court should be final arbiter.

The problem is that the Military messed up the country laws, these are issues that should have been tested long time ago in Nigeria and proper interpretation gotten from the Courts.

EbolaParasite:


Are you ok? Can't you read.
This is about position as speaker. If you defect, you do not lose your position. What he is losing in this case is his position as SPEAKER and not as a member of the house. Is it so hard for you to comprehend. How did you pass WAEC?

EbolaParasite:


Kindly explain

gateleo:
Who gave Tambuwal the speakership mandate? PDP or the opposition members of the House. Tambuwal was never the candidate of the PDP. The PDP wanted Mulikat Akande, while the opposition and majority of the PDP members voted for Tambuwal. We should go back and check this fact before coming here again.
The procedure of electing principal members at the Legislature is NOT based on party affiliation. The "standing order" only says that members "shall elect among themselves". No mention was made about which party to elect from.

This is impunity in the highest order. Is the police the court to interprets the constitution? Is the IG lackey of the pdp?. Tambuwal is still the speaker of the house of rep. Read the provisions of the constitution on the removal of speaker. This matter is still in court. Jonathan should be very very careful

chukwudi44:


DO YOU ASSIGN SECURITY DETAILS TO AN ORDINARY CITIZEN? TAMBUWAL IS NO LONGER A MEMBER OF THE HOR NOR SPEAKER AND SO IS NOT ENTITLED TO ANY SECURITY DETAILS

Beehshorp:
You want to eat ur cake and have it abi Mr tambuwal.. See let me tell u defecting from the PDP to APC is like taking 5 steps backwards ask amaechi d moment he defected he became el rufai's driver... A word is enough for the wise








PS: APC e-rats/rodents quote me make thunder fire una

Temptee101:
I vowed not to comment on this again because i was getting fed up with the recent shameful happenings in nigeria untill i came across your post. I needed to enlighten you where probably you lost it. There is nowhere in the constitution where it was stipulated that the speaker house of reps must/should come from the majority, though the speaker if he was a man of integrity ought to have resigned honourably but as usual this is Naija and we are talking about our ever greedy power drunk corrupt politicians, i'm not surprised. Removing the speaker would only be possible if and only if 2/3 of the majority of the house vote in favour of that. Its true the PDP is of the majority but they dont make up to 2/3 of the majority. At it stands PDP is handicapped here, they need to lobby other members who are of the opposition to get their votes. You can agree with me that it will be easier for the head of a camel to pass through the mouth of needle than for the opposition members to be in support of it. Let me stop here. Am just tried of the set of visionless leaders that we parade.

karlmax2:
this what the ig means

section 68. (1) A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if -

Then

(g) being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected;

Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored; or

DEUNSTOPPABLE:
ARE YOU THE ONE THAT REMOVED HIM FROM HOR? CAN ANYONE ROMOVE HIM WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE MEMBERS? YOU BETTER KEEP QUIET SMALL BOY.

dallyemmy:
Are you sure there is no divivsion or faction in the present PDP?

chukwudi44:
The IGP is simply abiding by the dictates of the 1999 constitution.he is enforcing the law he swore to uphold,s it is very much in order

Montaque:
yes the case was instituted,but what was the decision on it? The sections they relied upon is nebulous. That cannot be compared to the clear provisions that a member of parliament stand disqualified as as such if he defects without just cause.there is no similar provision for the Governors in the CFRN. Its a lacuna and Its still to be decided by the court. Please dont make the comparism, TAmbuwal as far as the constitution is concerned is no longer a member of the house,irrespective of the case in court for the Governors that defected.

donphilopus:
Why would they withdraw his Security?! Anyways, withdrawing his security doesn't mean anything, after all they once withdrew Amaechi's security. That doesn't still change the fact that PDP is a sinking ship and that Jonathan is going back to Otuoke come 2015.

BTW, who's the lazy fellow that moved this hocus pocus to the Homepage?! I read through the write-up, but never saw anything like “He's no longer the Speaker” in the source the OP provided. Instead of banning the OP for misleading Nigerians, the nitwit rewarded the OP by moving his stale thread to the homepage!

chukwudi44:



WHICH COURT DECLARED NYAKO'S SEAT VACANT? DID THE HOUSE NOT FOLLOW THE DICTATES OF THE CONSTITUTION TO REMOVE HIM? TAMBUWAL HAS LOST HIS SEAT.IF HE WANTS TO CONTEST IT LET HIM GO TO COURT OR STAND FOR ANOTHER ELECTION UNDER HIS NEW PARTY

Montaque:
yes,thats the law,tho heavens fall. There are exceptions though,so it may not apply to all of them.

abdulabbakar:


Go and read the impeachment section between the line...The panel to be set up for the removal shall be headed by the CJ!

Omimah:

Be reasonable! If PDP feels what the Speaker did was wrong, are they not supposed to take him to court? By withdrawing his security details and making Ihedioha the new Speaker would only result to crisis when the House resumes plenary in December. This may snowball to a national crisis.

CrinkumCrankum:


Dumby...Governors have Immunity and the law only apply to HoA.....

hardywaltz:
The function of the Police is not to interpret the provisions of the Constitution, that is the exclusive preserve of the Judiciary.
That said the section which the Forces Public Relations officer quoted has to do with Tambuwal's eligibility as a legislator which is a matter currently before the courts.

In the eyes of the law Tambuwal is the substantive speaker of the house until he has been removed in accordance with the provisions of the CFR as amended.

However if PDP is confident that they control the votes of the house, let the Deputy Speaker Emeka Ihedioha reconvene the house; (3/4) members need to sign the notice of extra - ordinary meeting and 2/3 majority is needed to form a qurom. And formally commence impeachment proceedings against the Speaker.

PDP knows it can't muster the needed votes so they have resorted to self help which is equivalent to Jungle justice.

BOAR:


The leaders of the country will do everything to avert this.

PDP will be wise to allow Tambuwal to keep the seat for the few remaining months, any aggression towards him while making Ikedioha the apparent and ultimate beneficiary can only escalate the brouhaha.

Omimah:

Be reasonable! If PDP feels what the Speaker did was wrong, are they not supposed to take him to court? By withdrawing his security details and making Ihedioha the new Speaker would only result to crisis when the House resumes plenary in December. This may snowball to a national crisis.

chukwudi44:

You are dreaming if you think a minority party would be allowed to preside over the house.

DEUNSTOPPABLE:
ARE YOU THE ONE THAT REMOVED HIM FROM HOR? CAN ANYONE ROMOVE HIM WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE MEMBERS? YOU BETTER KEEP QUIET SMALL BOY.

Iamdagreatguy:
Nonsense!!! Arrant Nonsense,
This IGP is just taking laws into his hand,,has the house impeached himhas the court declared his seat vacant,,,why can't the same thing be done to Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo who recently decamped to PDP.
One of the reason I don't like this PDP's government.
GEJ was my candidate in 2011,,time to correct my mistake.
Btw,wat does the constitution quoted says,,,the second paragraph gives room to decamp bt only on the ground that there is conflict or faction in d party.
Presently in sokoto there is faction in PDP,,,so why is the IGP taking laws into his own hands?

BOAR:


and you are dreaming big time if you think Ihedioha will become the Speaker.